Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Dallas COPA 2013

Dealey Plaza Dallas 12:30 PM November 22nd 2003

COPA Director John Judge Reports:

The Mayor of Dallas has called for
Mayors in all other American cities to ring church bells at 12:30 pm CST to
commemorate the moment of the Kennedy assassination on November 22, the 50th
anniversary. Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for Democracy.

85% of the American public reject the findings of the Warren Commission report,
as did the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1978, finding instead a
"probable conspiracy" in the murders of President Kennedy and Dr.
Martin Luther King. No federal investigation or action followed. We are the
mainstream, not the dissent. Oswald's role as a patsy, not a shooter, is
supported by all the best evidence that has been released. The real evidence
clearly points to a crime and a cover-up that followed that reaches to the
highest levels of the U.S. government and military.

COPA will hold two Moment of Silence events on November 22 because we have been
displaced by the Mayor from Dealey Plaza until 2:30 pm CST. If you are in
Dallas we hope you will join us for both events, starting at 11:00 am at Main
and Market Streets.

If you cannot be in Dallas, consider holding your own Moment of Silence and
using your freedom of expression to be visible in communities and cities across
America to ring "the chimes of freedom" by calling for a return to
democracy and the rule of law in America, to transparency, accountability and
truth. Let local press and the public know in any way you can that you will
hold a public event at 12:30 pm CST in your time zone. Our model on the Grassy
Knoll for 49 years has been to hold banners and signs about the case being
open, the files being closed and justice being denied. We call ahead for a
Moment of Silence, hold it and then researchers speak out about the best new
evidence of conspiracy and coverup.

Honor the life and legacy of President Kennedy and his efforts for world peace
and social justice by calling for a solution in courts to his murder. Let
Congress and the president know it is time for all the files to be released this
year. Don't let the Mayor of Dallas and the Sixth Floor Museum create a
Perpetuity of Silence about this assassination.

COPA worked together with Pete Johnson of the Columbus Free Press and Andrea
Skolnick to produce a broadsheet to be handed out in Dallas on November 22 to
inform thousands of people about the meaning and impact of the Kennedy
assassination, to let them understand why they are being locked out of Dealey
Plaza, and to promote our two Moment of Silence events and our 20th annual
conference November 22-24 at the Aloft Hotel.

These will be handed out by volunteers (contact copa@starpower.net
if you can assist) on November 22, but they can also be given out anywhere that
day. Even if you do not plan to attend our conference, feel free to reproduce
and distribute it in your community on the 50th anniversary of the
assassination of President Kennedy.

Also COPA has designed a t-shirt with our conference logo and title to be worn
that day in Dallas and at the Mayor's event. You could purchase one and wear it
o November 22 as well to be visible and encourage public discussion and debate.
Here is the link:
To order your shirt ($23.95) use this link:

4:15 - 5:30 pm
– Plot and Suspects
Greg Burnham, Sabotage at the Bay of Pigs: A Revolution of Mind
Russ Baker, New Clarity on George HW Bush and Dallas
Andrew Kiel, J Edgar Hoover, the FBI, the CIA and the JFK Assassination
20 minutes each, 15 at end for questions

9:00 – 10:15 am
– Records and Archives
Bill Kelly, Air Force One Tapes November 22, 1963
David Montague, The importance of the research community in assisting the U.S.
Assassination
Records Review Board: A testimonial from a former ARRB staffer
Ben Rogers, What's New in the Poage Library JFK Archives?
20 minutes each, 15 at end for questions